I am beginning to think of the library as a garden, not meaning a library dedicated to botany, horticulture and gazebo plans but a garden as in much weeding of books. Also as in rumors of blowers being used by janitors to speed up the job.
I am pulling books off the shelves and computer as quickly as I can. I have not pulled the old reference books yet, but I hope to eliminate them by Thursday as well. The shelves look a little barer but a lot better. Some of the discards might find homes in classrooms or with students.
As to the blower rumor, someone who worked here as a janitor and moved to another school told me that blowers were being used in the library at other schools. I am seeing a lot of dust on books, and I do not know if this is happening here, and I will probably not know. If I were to run into the office asking that blowers not be used, I would probably be taken for yet another overly anxious librarian. Who knows? If I'm laid off, I will never know what else they are doing with these books; besides not reading them.
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